The huge dark sky. The crashing waves. The smell of the ocean. An escape? Or another trap?Scott has rented a house in an old seaside town in Nova Scotia. He plans to spend the summer painting and escaping from the hustle of his career in Toronto. He begins to develop a friendship with Emily, the local bar-owner, and creates beautiful canvases from the seascape by his house. It seems like he might get the vacation he sorely needs, but life has other ideas.A chance encounter ...

Four houses. A dozen people.All behind one ostentatious façade.The inhabitants of the Hollywood Parade range in age from an infant to a pair of nonagenarians and from the wealthy to welfare recipients. The actions of each affect the others as they try to navigate the various connections, resulting in breakups and new relationships, a murder, and an attempted murder. The old building itself also plays a role.

I was born on the hood of a Studebaker . . .So begins the story of Boy, coming of age in a small town in the 1960s. From trying to understand the Cold War, to first kisses, and the moon landing, Boy struggles to make sense of his world. The unexpected disappearance of his father raises a multitude of questions: Was he really born in outer space? What exactly does one do when The Bomb lands in your backyard? And what precisely is supposed to happen on the front porch after your firs...

This wonderful book focuses on the use of chord shapes (mainly triads) in building a single line solo. It also opens up some of the mystery of the fretboard by showing exactly how the fretboard relates to diatonic harmony without using single note scales. Not only will new lines appear easier, but new and usable chord voicings will also appear. These chords will be related to the lines being played. It also will help move away from position playing and open up the neck, removing any black ...

When a seven-million-vote margin of victory and 306 electoral votes pointed to Joe Biden as the victor in the 2020 Presidential Election, Trump-fueled conspiracy theories exploded.In The Big Truth, CBS's Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett and the nation's foremost elections expert David Becker completely upend The Big Lie that has infected the Far Right with firsthand stories of election officials like Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Bucks Count...

A Revelatory Account Of The 2020 Election—The Most Secure, Verifiable, And Transparent In American History—And The Heroes Brave Enough To Get It Right The Big Truth illuminates a crowning achievement in America's quest for a robust democracy in the face of slander by sore losers and opportunists. Filled with interviews of the guardians of democracy—election workers, January 6th Committee members Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) and Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raf...

A proposta geral foi uma análise da jornada do vilão de Joker (2019), do diretor Todd Phillips. O filme se destaca, em meio às demais adaptações das HQs da franquia de Batman, por evitar embates dicotômicos entre o bem o mal. Ironicamente, a premissa criada por Phillips é marcada justamente pelo oposto: a perda de controle, em um universo urbano onde Batman ainda não existe e o caos é agravado nas ruas de Gotham, cada vez mais imundas e violentas. Ao analisar a obra, chega-se a conjecturar...

A richly illustrated natural history of fungiOccupying an entire kingdom of their own, fungi comprise over 155,000 species that include yeasts, rusts, and molds as well as the more familiar mushrooms and toadstools that we see in the wild and on our plates. Found widely across the globe, they represent a diverse group of organisms, some living freely in soil and water, and others forming parasitic or symbiotic relationships with plants, algae, and animals. This boo...

How to Manage Your Science and Technology Degree is a ground-breaking book, offering a no-nonsense approach to all areas of undergraduate life, including maximizing learning opportunities, handling mathematics and coping with laboratory work. How to succeed in mastering time and finances is covered, as are examination techniques. It also discusses the wider aspects of university life and helps students to grasp each opportunity available to them. The book concludes with a chapter ...

Three experts in Human Resources introduce a measurement system that convincingly showcases how HR impacts business performance.Drawing from the authors' ongoing study of nearly 3,000 firms, this book describes a seven-step process for embedding HR systems within the firm's overall strategy—what the authors describe as an HR Scorecard—and measuring its activities in terms that line managers and CEOs will find compelling. Analyzing how each element of the HR system ...

Hohe Geldbußen und weitere Sanktionen drohen mittlerweile in nahezu allen Bereichen des Kapitalmarktrechts: Für Emittenten und Käufergesellschaften, Kreditinstitute und Wertpapierdienstleister sind Bußgeldrahmen im zweistelligen Millionenbereich oder – bei umsatzstarken Unternehmen – auch weit darüber hinaus der gesetzliche Regelfall. Das persönliche Verfolgungsrisiko von Leitungspersonen wie Vorständen und Geschäftsführern oder auch Compliance-Officern tritt hinzu. Konzentriert auf die am...

Die Mehrheit der Bürger vertraut den Medien nicht mehr. Viele haben erkannt: Eine von Konzerninteressen, Hochglanzwerbung und politischer Agitation à la "Deutschland geht es so gut wie nie zuvor" (Angela Merkel) geprägte "Berichterstattung" hat mit der sozialen Realität wenig gemein. Eine "Kernschmelze des Vertrauens" (Edelman Trust Barometer 2017) findet statt. Der Medienmainstream antwortet auf Kritik üblicherweise mit Aussagen wie "Wir sind nicht gesteuert, Fehler passieren jedem", oder...